Nihilist Penguin (Werner Herzog)

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  • In this scene, Herzog is bored to tears talking to a penguin expert so he asks the seemingly flippant question, "Can a penguin go insane?" Yet the very next scene we see just that - out of a swarm of penguins heading to the mating grounds a lone dissenter makes make a sharp right and head towards the mountains in a full-speed waddle. It's explained that this penguin has become confused and will head for that mountain with the same vigour with which he pursued the promise of procreation, until he reaches his goal or dies. Isn't insanity a human trait? Near the end, while exploring some tunnels under the south pole, Herzog wonders what an alien race would think of the relics of our civilization and how they would imagine us to be. Who knows what an alien race would have thought of the deeply funny snow-blindness training sequence featuring people with cartoon-faced buckets on their heads leading each other around - literally the blind leading the blind.
    From: Encounters at the end of the world (Werner Herzog)

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  • @TheStockwell
    @TheStockwell 5 лет назад +10431

    Werner Herzog tells a joke:
    "Why did the penguin cross the road? To die. Alone. Insane and unnoticed."

    • @KaiserFranzJosefI
      @KaiserFranzJosefI 4 года назад +454

      German humor

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell 4 года назад +24

      @ Copyright infringement and outright theft are the foundations of a healthy internet. Go for it! :)

    • @86rattlehead
      @86rattlehead 4 года назад +22

      Werner Herzog films a joke.

    •  4 года назад +2

      @@86rattlehead No, Vic. NO! Did you hear that, guys? Vic says (tremble), Werner....might be joking.
      What do we do with this new information? Commit suicide? Open a deli in Delhi? Examine our ontological basis for being? What? WHAT???

    • @86rattlehead
      @86rattlehead 4 года назад +12

      @ We just try to be ourselves while Werner films us and we pray it better be a joke video rather than his usual documentary...

  • @Wilsongaboi
    @Wilsongaboi 2 года назад +4767

    Scientist: "They get disorientated"
    Werner Herzog: "The penguin peers into the void and sequesters what's left of his sanity and plunges head long into the abyss to never be seen again."

    • @paulcolbourne9112
      @paulcolbourne9112 Год назад +18

      😂

    • @gavrelton6211
      @gavrelton6211 Год назад +12

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @zeMasterRuseman
      @zeMasterRuseman Год назад +93

      It's a better explanation than being disoriented. He can see where his flock is and where the rest are heading.

    • @DrawsRene
      @DrawsRene Год назад +68

      @@zeMasterRusemanbeing disorient is not always that easy. You can hit your head pretty badly and see your mates and still walk the wrong direction.

    • @WiseOwl_1408
      @WiseOwl_1408 Год назад +13

      It's always strange how people apply meaning to the meaningless

  • @johnp1667
    @johnp1667 3 года назад +5327

    He's not running off to die, he's running to find out if he's really alive.

    • @hiendarinenkoray
      @hiendarinenkoray 2 года назад +184

      damn it, spike

    • @TheAeolian
      @TheAeolian 2 года назад +79

      @@hiendarinenkoray Bang.

    • @andrewswanson4819
      @andrewswanson4819 2 года назад +46

      He's the Sky King of the penguin world

    • @redtexan7053
      @redtexan7053 2 года назад +80

      The Real Penguin Blues

    • @Nick_fb
      @Nick_fb 2 года назад +23

      Jurassic Park: The Lost World
      Nick says: The animal (T-Rex) exists on the planet for the first time in tens of millions of years and the only way you can express yourself is to kill it.
      Roland replies: Remember that chap about twenty years ago? I forget his name. Climbed Everest without any oxygen, came down nearly dead. When they asked him, they said why did you go up there to die? He said I didn't, I went up there to live.

  • @ovskii96
    @ovskii96 4 месяца назад +253

    "The struggle against the absurd is the only meaning I have" - the Penguin probably

    • @florianadolf2256
      @florianadolf2256 2 месяца назад +5

      Shamefully underrated quotation 😂

    • @itsame5272
      @itsame5272 28 дней назад +1

      Where is this quote from?

    • @sbef
      @sbef 27 дней назад +4

      Sounds a lot like Albert Camus in "the myth of Sisyphus"

    • @itsame5272
      @itsame5272 27 дней назад

      @@sbef thanks

    • @stevenkelby2169
      @stevenkelby2169 19 дней назад +1

      All penguin die.
      Not all penguins live.
      🐧

  • @sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262
    @sdjslkdjlsskldjslkdjsl8262 Год назад +622

    Herzog: IS THERE SUCH THEENG AS INSANITY AMONG PENGVINZ
    Guy: (pause) um, well,

    • @98765zach
      @98765zach 7 месяцев назад +102

      To be fair if a man who sounds like Werner Herzog drags you up a cliff and tells you to sit down on the edge of it, and then IMMEDIATELY asks you a question about insanity and nihilism I too would be VERY careful with my words lol

    • @Randomaccount9470
      @Randomaccount9470 18 дней назад

      😂😂😂 There's alot to process ​@@98765zach

  • @radovanwolf593
    @radovanwolf593 7 лет назад +2450

    One must imagine the penguin
    happy

    • @5508Vanderdekken
      @5508Vanderdekken 4 года назад +73

      beautiful comment, lol. The myth of penuinis

    • @tamanwar203
      @tamanwar203 3 года назад +67

      - Albert Pinguin

    • @joshuajackson530
      @joshuajackson530 3 года назад +61

      The struggle towards the mountain is enough to fill a birds heart. One must image Mr. Penguin happy.

    • @evanwonisch788
      @evanwonisch788 3 года назад +6

      Incredible..

    • @ZigbertD
      @ZigbertD 2 года назад +27

      Emptied of hope, the penguin has laid his heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.

  • @Sabrowsky
    @Sabrowsky 7 лет назад +3254

    give it up to werner herzog to make penguins look depressing
    that shit requires sheer talent

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 3 года назад +93

      Ehhh... it's a German talent.

    • @lordmegatron4789
      @lordmegatron4789 3 года назад +46

      @@seththomas9105 i was about to say it's called being german lol

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 3 года назад

      @@lordmegatron4789 Pretty much sums it up.

    • @satisfying6040
      @satisfying6040 Год назад +2

      How would you know? You have experience filming and narrating penguins?

    • @dmoon9037
      @dmoon9037 Год назад +7

      I need to see that penguin on a Rammstein treadmill.

  • @stroud9208
    @stroud9208 3 года назад +1273

    I expected a meme and instead I ended up with an existential crisis over a penguin.

    • @snicket87
      @snicket87 3 месяца назад +20

      This is a meme that "got disoriented" and ended up in the far away lands of the existential YT

    • @florianadolf2256
      @florianadolf2256 Месяц назад +4

      @@stroud9208 That's part of Werner Herzog's magic...

  • @josephl9931
    @josephl9931 Год назад +564

    I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it. - Franz Kafka

    • @eldermillennial8330
      @eldermillennial8330 4 месяца назад +28

      In the book “Conversations with Kafka” by Gustav Janouch, the morose Kafka commented on reading Chesterton's “Orthodoxy” and “The Man who was Thursday”: "Er ist so lustig, dass man fast glauben könnte, er habe Gott gefunden." "He is so joyful, that one might almost believe that he had found God."
      NO ONE else even came remotely close to getting Kafka to say anything so nearly positive.
      I can’t recommend Chesterton enough.

    • @paulheinrichdietrich9518
      @paulheinrichdietrich9518 3 месяца назад +1

      ​@@eldermillennial8330Good quote, I'm not fluent in German but shouldn't it be "Er ist so lustig, dass man fast glauben könnte, er HAT Gott gefunden"?

    • @glimlog
      @glimlog 3 месяца назад +4

      @@paulheinrichdietrich9518“habe“ or „hätte“ are correct. „Habe“ in this context is more ‚sophisticated‘ one could say

    • @paulheinrichdietrich9518
      @paulheinrichdietrich9518 3 месяца назад +1

      @@glimlog OK.

    • @MichaelConroy-o4s
      @MichaelConroy-o4s 2 месяца назад

      @@josephl9931 And then there was a grand epiphany,Mr. Kafka,the eternal pessimist,had a change of heart.He felt deep from within a Power much larger and greater than himself.He decided that life was worth living after all and was actually looking forward to the rest of his life with great enthusiasm.Life,alas,had decidedly other plans.How ironic..and just?😧

  • @moskva-kassiopeya
    @moskva-kassiopeya Год назад +503

    Imagine you escaped the matrix to discover some huge creatures standing silently still just watching you passing by.

    • @colinharter4094
      @colinharter4094 5 месяцев назад +59

      okay but that perspective fucked me up.

    • @420luvsounds
      @420luvsounds 4 месяца назад +6

      😂😂😂

    • @mcgoo721
      @mcgoo721 27 дней назад +4

      Ain't that just the Truman Show tho?

    • @traceantonacci2495
      @traceantonacci2495 14 дней назад +1

      Like the Amygdala from Bloodborne.

  • @Chudea
    @Chudea 4 года назад +5507

    All death is certain. This penguin didn't go to the mountains to die. He went on the journey in order to live. Rest in peace on the top of that mountain, penguin. Your frozen grave will be your place of victory over monotony

    • @louisvincent5035
      @louisvincent5035 3 года назад +167

      Damn dude I'm glad I came to the comments...

    • @greymarsh8941
      @greymarsh8941 3 года назад +50

      right in the feels...

    • @sealife12
      @sealife12 3 года назад +18

      The penguin wrote me and said fuck you, he didn’t die, he made it alive and that he cannot understand English nor can he access RUclips.

    • @senoj.rednaxela
      @senoj.rednaxela 3 года назад +65

      I read that all in Herzog's voice

    • @janrupertalfeche8959
      @janrupertalfeche8959 3 года назад +32

      Ah, so the penguin equivalent of doing Everest.

  • @DannyKlimt
    @DannyKlimt 2 года назад +606

    1:33 the penguin turned around and said: "In case I don't see ya: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night!"

    • @privatevendetta
      @privatevendetta 3 месяца назад +32

      And thanks for all the fish.

    • @jeremifrancisco1
      @jeremifrancisco1 3 месяца назад +5

      😢😢😢

    • @HeathenWays
      @HeathenWays 3 месяца назад +3

      42

    • @Seamannon
      @Seamannon 2 месяца назад +1

      @@privatevendetta So long! 😛

    • @MichaelConroy-o4s
      @MichaelConroy-o4s 2 месяца назад

      @@HeathenWays A tip o’ the Jackie Robinson cap.⚾️⚾️⚾️🇺🇸👹👍

  • @avfn8981
    @avfn8981 3 года назад +1523

    i feel like this short clip pretty much sums up all of Herzog's films. deeply profound and totally bonkers at the same time.

    • @Niphredyl
      @Niphredyl 2 года назад +32

      It's around 60% of the runtime of the film. I actually shread a tear. Not embarrassed.

    • @sunsetvista877
      @sunsetvista877 Год назад +21

      I think the penguin is on his way to pull an abandoned boat out the the central american jungle☺☺

    • @Progger11
      @Progger11 11 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@NiphredylHow does one "shread" a tear? What is "shread," anyway?

    • @Niphredyl
      @Niphredyl 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@Progger11 typo, shed

    • @humildemarcelo
      @humildemarcelo 9 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@sunsetvista877bro going to put an opera house in the ancient city of the elder ones

  • @GeneralGuitFiddle
    @GeneralGuitFiddle Год назад +163

    Fuck man when you realize Herzog is just commenting on your life in a penguin documentary.

    • @ellenthomas5704
      @ellenthomas5704 3 месяца назад +4

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @M.Datura
      @M.Datura 3 месяца назад +2

      Or commenting on his own.

    • @florianadolf2256
      @florianadolf2256 2 месяца назад +1

      Yeah, that's kind of his shtick😂...

    • @MichaelConroy-o4s
      @MichaelConroy-o4s 17 дней назад

      Good gimmick,really.LikeJordan Peterson and the invisible bubble gum.(Combined with the wardrobe(?),you’re pretty much there.)Vocabularic competence,at that point,attains superfluousness..one might aver.😉

  • @avisays350
    @avisays350 Год назад +291

    this penguin reminds me of the insanity of early human exploration, the fact that there were humans living on islands like new zealand or even the polynesian islands means that a group of humans had to construct and get on a boat and sail the open ocean towards absolutely nothing, no identifiable goal or destination, just to see what was out there. like them, even this penguin had to be held to the answer to the question “but why?”

    • @chrissibersky4617
      @chrissibersky4617 7 месяцев назад +53

      I've read a lot about the Vikings. They believed in fate. That their time on earth was set before birth. They thought that you couldn't escape your destiny. So if you were to die at a certain time it didn't matter if you were at the battlefield or cowering under a table at home. And the best thing you could achieve in life was a glorious death that would make people remember you. I think that's why they were such fearless explorers.
      I don't know what is going on in the penguin's mind though.

    • @franzlinke8086
      @franzlinke8086 5 месяцев назад +6

      Endless try and error of the human collective

    • @kesorangutan6170
      @kesorangutan6170 4 месяца назад +15

      Yeah actually sea-exploring civilizations such as iberians, phoenicians, austronesians/polynesians, and vikings kinda know where to go thanks to their knowledge and skills on navigation but definitely did not know what was awaiting them in the vastness of ocean. It was mental but not that much mental.

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ 4 месяца назад +16

      @@kesorangutan6170 Some of them definitely did not make it. There were stories of lost Polynesians eking out a living on some random atoll, and plenty of Polynesian outliers which are weirdly isolated (and on/near already inhabited islands) with names of previous homelands that really seem like a navigation error took them there. In some cultures they sent out adolescents to navigate in a sort of trial by fire. Storms can send you off course too. Of course, some of the skilled navigators were able to follow birds and knew exactly where to go. But it was definitely not a surefire thing every time, who knows how many died lost in the ocean, observation bias is very strong here.
      Iberians and Phonecians never made it beyond Gibraltar (and maaaybe the islands of Macaronesia), the Mediterranean is much more chill considering the weather is generally not quite so bad and you're bound to hit shoreline within a reasonable time. And even then they tended to follow the shorelines.
      Basically, a lot of early European sailing was pretty chill, the Austronesian peoples were pretty bonkers with navigation and definitely had their fair share of failures in the quest for new islands.

    • @kesorangutan6170
      @kesorangutan6170 4 месяца назад +8

      @@StuffandThings_ What do you mean Phoenicians never made past gibraltar? They ruled the atlantic trade. Phoenicians went as far south as Senegal (a conservative estimate btw) and as north as Great Britain. They definitely did not just coast-hug because you can't pass cape Bojador by coast-hugging. You also can't find colonies in Sardinia, Baleares etc by coast hugging.
      By "iberians" I meant portuguese and spanish.
      I also never claimed all of them made it?? Do you know how many ships vikings of Greenland lost due to harsh ocean currents and icebergs? A lot. If 10 viking ships sailed to Greenland only 3 or 4 of them would make it.

  • @faraday1548
    @faraday1548 3 года назад +4473

    I genuinely can't tell if Werner Herzog is a comedic genius or entirely insane.

  • @CG-mj4vf
    @CG-mj4vf 2 года назад +1269

    This was both disturbing, depressing, hilarious, and wonderful all at once.

  • @mishtaromaniello8295
    @mishtaromaniello8295 6 лет назад +2865

    The way the penguin turns around at 1:33 after Werner asks “But why?” is very chilling. It’s like the penguin heard the question and turned to try to answer, but went back to the mountains and said “I don’t know.”

    • @kaboulscabal4816
      @kaboulscabal4816 5 лет назад +50

      Auda abu Tayi : [to Lawrence] There is only the desert for you.

    • @kaboulscabal4816
      @kaboulscabal4816 5 лет назад +73

      Or said ... "I *do* know" and *then* turned back to the mountains ...

    • @sonnyboyduffy8399
      @sonnyboyduffy8399 4 года назад +2

      WOULD YOU GO BACK, I need a pizza bra

    • @fakecubed
      @fakecubed 4 года назад +128

      It's almost as if the narration was written after they got the footage, and timed with the footage for maximum emotional impact.

    • @fajita2
      @fajita2 4 года назад +18

      Well, it's not like the voiceover was played in real time to the penguin during that shot....

  • @johnlo2117
    @johnlo2117 Год назад +151

    Herzog: But why?
    Penguin: Why not?

  • @HughMansonMD
    @HughMansonMD 10 месяцев назад +173

    How does Werner make a possibly insane penguin one of the most poetic things I've ever seen on film? The dude is a legitimate genius.

    • @galilelollel9658
      @galilelollel9658 7 месяцев назад

      He is just twlling facs. He knows whats heading infront of the penguin. After 5k kilometers he will die surely or before and this was the last moment that we sqw him

    • @Gavin-w4r
      @Gavin-w4r 7 месяцев назад +7

      He sees poetry everywhere. All real artists do.

  • @amyvic5121
    @amyvic5121 4 года назад +737

    It's Nietzsches Überpinguin, living (or dying) alone in the mountains.

    • @mator2339
      @mator2339 4 года назад +7

      Nietzsche wasn't a nihilist.

    • @amyvic5121
      @amyvic5121 4 года назад +4

      @@mator2339 Yeah he was just an arrogant prick. He didn't say there was nothung true to say about the world he just said everybody else was wrong so far.

    • @robinhoodwasasocialist.1401
      @robinhoodwasasocialist.1401 3 года назад +46

      When you stare at the penguin; the penguin stares back at you.

    • @jml4000
      @jml4000 3 года назад +34

      He's retreating to the mountains to work on his manuscript - "Thus Clucked Zarathustra"

    • @trikkinikki970
      @trikkinikki970 3 года назад +15

      @@mator2339 no, but he did idolize those who made their virtue their downfall, whether it be a tight rope walker who fell, or this penguin who yearned for greatness and the unknowable to only be rewarded with death.

  • @televikkuntdaowuxing
    @televikkuntdaowuxing 7 лет назад +1435

    That "But *WHY* ?" basically explains the only existential question that matters..

    • @Navak_
      @Navak_ 6 лет назад +91

      so profound even the penguin heard him and considered the question for a moment before continuing on his way

    • @ingolfurarnar697
      @ingolfurarnar697 5 лет назад +5

      Suicide. These penguins can't hang themselves in a rope or blow their brains out.

    • @thesprawl2361
      @thesprawl2361 4 года назад +29

      This comment section has some of the most unintentionally funny comments I've seen. "why is the penguin waddling off to the mountains?" is apparently the most transcendent existential question in all the universe!
      I know what you were getting at, but it sounds quite funny if you take a step back and look at it. It's a penguin that's a bit thick - once you realise that, all the posts in the comments immediately appear deeply absurd.

    • @wittylibrarian
      @wittylibrarian 4 года назад +5

      @@Navak_ the penguin turned around when he heard the question and shouted back "EFF YOU HERZOG I JUST WANNA DIE"

    • @colinharter4094
      @colinharter4094 3 года назад +2

      At first, I thought he was going to answer his own question. But then I remembered this ain't no David Attenborough documentary. 😂

  • @duncanthomson7894
    @duncanthomson7894 4 года назад +813

    I never thought I would have watched a video of a penguin waddling giddily towards oblivion as many times as I have now.

    • @colinmelton6919
      @colinmelton6919 3 года назад +2

      It’s the voice...

    • @dmoon9037
      @dmoon9037 Год назад +17

      In a Herzog documentary, with full spectrum anthropomorphism, that penguin is you looking back at yourself in chaos and existential hostility. As in Kubrick’s Odyssey, Dave Bowman looking in the mirror.

    • @johngoldsworthy7135
      @johngoldsworthy7135 Год назад +1

      Herzog is a filmmaking genius that’s why

    • @MsMiguel70
      @MsMiguel70 10 месяцев назад

      Oh come on, you saw it coming. : )

  • @Tribophopic
    @Tribophopic Год назад +269

    People don’t understand the abyss was the colony. Faceless, unchanging, stuck in monotony. A hideous cycle. The penguin chose, ergo he’s not looking into the abyss. He’s looking into the sun to find his fortune.

    • @richardpark3054
      @richardpark3054 4 месяца назад +3

      Thanks, Franz.

    • @AlexisB-gv1tk
      @AlexisB-gv1tk 3 месяца назад +3

      This changes the whole vegetarian argument obsolete. Clearly animals have not much to live for

    • @stejer211
      @stejer211 3 месяца назад +1

      Deadly poetic.

    • @yemiplwn
      @yemiplwn 3 месяца назад +2

      @@AlexisB-gv1tk... Right
      Lets go back to making plastic bottles and youtube videos

    • @AlexisB-gv1tk
      @AlexisB-gv1tk 3 месяца назад +2

      @@yemiplwn completely irrelevant

  • @lisacupcake5777
    @lisacupcake5777 3 месяца назад +46

    That penguin is the philosopher of its time

  • @roxxram9151
    @roxxram9151 2 года назад +899

    This penguin understands that if they reach the summit against all odds, they will triumphantly belly-slide down and become the fastest penguin that ever lived. If he hits a snow-ramp he will be truly airborne for a short time. Waddle on, little dreamer

    • @DrawsRene
      @DrawsRene Год назад +47

      Waddle on little dreamer just killed my heart

    • @nodeloliver6201
      @nodeloliver6201 Год назад +11

      Belly slide on, you beautiful creature.

    • @archsys307
      @archsys307 Год назад +14

      Bros making learn to fly in real life

    • @brobruh7850
      @brobruh7850 Год назад +4

      Misread fastest and first and I think that’s beautiful too

    • @roxxram9151
      @roxxram9151 Год назад +10

      @@brobruh7850 God I wish penguins were real

  • @chaosfive55
    @chaosfive55 7 лет назад +523

    "But WHY?"
    --because sometimes the quest for the unknown outweighs all considerations of mere life and death.

    • @alenaivanov3868
      @alenaivanov3868 4 года назад +12

      Yes, penguins on the quest for the unknown. The classic novel "Pengarrtha" immediately springs to mind.

    • @FalconTalk
      @FalconTalk 3 года назад

      Boom

  • @seanm4173
    @seanm4173 7 лет назад +578

    Penguins bored as fuck with it all. Doesn't fancy a cuddle and doesn't feel like having his life run by an egg. He's the smartest of the group. I wish he could fly.

    • @shadowfox6438
      @shadowfox6438 7 лет назад +11

      Sean M I'd have done the same

    • @seanm4173
      @seanm4173 7 лет назад +35

      yup, one or two seasons of that nonsense? time to bounce

    • @joe3489
      @joe3489 3 года назад +16

      I wish he could touch the sky

    • @FlaccidSunday
      @FlaccidSunday 2 года назад +6

      He's certainly flying now

  • @AbAb-th5qe
    @AbAb-th5qe Год назад +140

    I think that penguin is truly alive. We are all heading towards certain death, but not everyone realises this. He will see what few other penguins ever will.

    • @otten5666
      @otten5666 10 месяцев назад +10

      Snow and ice?

    • @AbAb-th5qe
      @AbAb-th5qe 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@otten5666 all penguins see that anyway. Likely most wouldn't be able to imagine anything else. They lack any other experience you see.

    • @otten5666
      @otten5666 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@AbAb-th5qe That was the lame joke I made. It doesn't matter where this little adventurer goes, it's all snow and ice.
      But I applaud the little guy for trying to reach for more than what the colony has to offer.

    • @AbAb-th5qe
      @AbAb-th5qe 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@otten5666 Why does anyone go holiday? It's just more trees and rocks. It certainly is a lame joke. Actually rocks might be quite novel to a penguin. They're only little.

    • @otten5666
      @otten5666 10 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@AbAb-th5qe I go on holiday for parties and ladies. Enjoy looking at rocks and trees.

  • @Tralfazz74
    @Tralfazz74 7 месяцев назад +12

    Explorers who venture off and die are called insane.
    Explorers who strike gold are called visionaries.
    The valor of a man ought not be judged solely by what they discover, but by their willingness to set out on the journey at all.
    No matter the reason, these penguins are brave

  • @Alemanizando
    @Alemanizando 3 года назад +861

    There are so many days when I feel just like this penguin.

    • @Markwaynesapp
      @Markwaynesapp 3 года назад +7

      Life is not about how many days you feel like the penguin,
      Life is about how many days you dont :)

    • @menospeakwelsh
      @menospeakwelsh 3 года назад +29

      @@Markwaynesapp And that's the problem. The overall amount of days where I do feel like him is vastly greater than those where I don't. When I just fixate on the 'good' days I am simply ignoring most of my life at best and outright refusing to acknowledge it at worst.

    • @Gallowglass7
      @Gallowglass7 3 года назад +3

      I understand, however, don't presume your suffering within itself is proof of your authenticity.
      *Nods*

    • @ogungou9
      @ogungou9 Год назад +3

      @@Markwaynesapp: 51 years of penguinism for me ... really.

    • @sonneversets3530
      @sonneversets3530 Год назад +2

      Jesus is waiting to help you with that.✝
      Just ask...❤

  • @coolandgood1010
    @coolandgood1010 6 лет назад +740

    At 1:34 when he looks back, then continues onward towards the mountains with such conviction.. I could feel that moment in the fibers of my heart. I could feel it in my blood. I relate to the little guy. I can relate so much. He's going to the big tundra in the sky.

    • @OrdnanceTV
      @OrdnanceTV 2 года назад +6

      I am with you

    • @RFC3514
      @RFC3514 Год назад +7

      He's going to the bucket full of fish behind that rock that Werner showed him the previous day.

    • @mitenka222
      @mitenka222 Год назад +2

      Ну проголодается и рванёт к воде этот пухляшка

    • @valinorean4816
      @valinorean4816 4 месяца назад

      @@mitenka222 The other one had already traveled 80 kilometers and was still going forward...

  • @jaidaniels905
    @jaidaniels905 4 года назад +50

    "Appel du Vide", The call of the void.
    You ever get a strange feeling when driving, that you can suddenly turn your wheel and it'll all come to end? The French call it L'Appel du Vide.
    This penguin has answered that call.

  • @likemy
    @likemy 4 месяца назад +31

    Penguin isn't a nihilist. He's an explorer. He's got more vitality in his heart than most men.

    • @ClaudeSpeed6
      @ClaudeSpeed6 4 дня назад

      Easy to be vital when you don't wake at the same time every day and sit still for 8 hours a day only to sit on the couch doing absolutely nothing and then pay taxes.
      The penguin's life is harder, but it's also more fulfilling. It doesn't leave you much time to ponder life, because you need to survive. That's the meaning of your life. Paired with the fact penguins aren't very smart and certainly not capable of philosophical thought, you can see why he's more vital than most men.

  • @regzzuse280
    @regzzuse280 Год назад +49

    1:34 That last glance, then turning around accepting the fate of the unknown and running towards it.

  • @peruviansatan1969
    @peruviansatan1969 4 года назад +385

    Some might say the penguin “is literally just vibing” but we may never know the truth of this tiny modern sisyphus’s intentions.

  • @jojojorisjhjosef
    @jojojorisjhjosef 7 лет назад +294

    Maybe the reason some penguins just start walking is for the same reason humans just cross the ocean for no reason, and go into space for no reason. It's the beauty of evolution. Only an idiot knows better than the genius.

    • @swedish0guy
      @swedish0guy 7 лет назад +16

      Humans usually survive when we explore, this penguin just went to certain death

    • @Wrathborn771
      @Wrathborn771 7 лет назад +37

      The penguin doesn't know that though. The vikings didn't know what they were going into whilst sailing the seas, finding england. It was told there was only certain death and/or infinite sea rather than new lands and new people.

    • @Sabrowsky
      @Sabrowsky 7 лет назад +9

      Actually, the "vikings" (quotation marks because the word viking means a looting/trading/colonization trip instead of the more common erroneus denomination of a people) did, seeing as the jutes and danes were directly involved in taking britain from the britonnic peoples after the romans left in the fifth century, even estabilishing a few colonies of their own before the anglo-saxons incorporated them into the newly formed kingdoms.
      Basically the scandinavians were well aware of the existense of an island, hell, they were sailing there for centuries already.
      So, when the first looting Viking (as in expedition) arrived in Lindisfarne it wasnt a completely unknown enemy, just an unexpected one, seeing as they had a longstanding trading relationship with the Northumbrian kingdom

    • @MCVessels
      @MCVessels 4 года назад +14

      @@swedish0guy No we don't! The people who come back and tell us the story of these great, undiscovered places, they survive. We never hear from the people who have gone out there and died, so we're largely unaware of their deaths.

    • @deltoroperdedor3166
      @deltoroperdedor3166 4 года назад +5

      I think it's the penguin version of going into the sea to drown, except it's into a barren wasteland, since penguins are good swimmers

  • @MrXetios
    @MrXetios 6 лет назад +103

    Everyone else my age is getting married and starting a family and here I am like:

    • @efectoyoga7
      @efectoyoga7 3 года назад +20

      like... but WHY?

    • @kooroshrostami27
      @kooroshrostami27 2 года назад +6

      And yet they will all die and all their children will bear the burden of knowing they have to die. None will find lasting meaning or happiness. Time to wake up!

    • @bloodyhell8201
      @bloodyhell8201 Год назад +5

      ​@@kooroshrostami27nihilist begone.

    • @florianadolf2256
      @florianadolf2256 2 месяца назад

      ​@@kooroshrostami27Readying yourself for a trip to Antarctica, by any chance?

    • @genericusername8337
      @genericusername8337 25 дней назад +1

      @@bloodyhell8201 Nihilist? It's a simple existential truth. Unless, you intend to live forever, you don't disagree; whatever meaning you find, will not be everlasting, since you are not everlasting. None will find lasting meaning or happiness.

  • @RoyOrbisonsElvisTape
    @RoyOrbisonsElvisTape 3 месяца назад +14

    To die free and fulfilled, we should all be as fortunate as that penguin.

  • @n0tarealdoctor
    @n0tarealdoctor Год назад +124

    Scientist: So what do you want to know about? Feeding habits? Mating habits? How they interact with each other?
    Werner Herzog: can a penguin go insane

    • @romanec3764
      @romanec3764 Год назад +3

      😂😂

    • @fragdude
      @fragdude Год назад +4

      Talk about a guy that should be the moderator for all presidential debates.
      Now *that* would be a show.

    • @zachjones6944
      @zachjones6944 10 месяцев назад +3

      Actually, mental illness in animals is a facet of behavioral ecology.

    • @notinspectorgadget
      @notinspectorgadget 4 месяца назад

      Scientist: um, well...

  • @SPAPBrocker
    @SPAPBrocker 6 лет назад +229

    When you feel like you relate to a penguin more than most people

    • @Slechy_Lesh
      @Slechy_Lesh 2 года назад +5

      I'm quite sure many people are struggling with suicidal thoughts

    • @DrawsRene
      @DrawsRene Год назад +5

      @@Slechy_Leshmore than you think. And most people find a solution to live with that.

    • @MostIntelligentMan
      @MostIntelligentMan Год назад +1

      ​@@Slechy_Leshnot enough

    • @sonneversets3530
      @sonneversets3530 11 месяцев назад +3

      @@MostIntelligentMan You must be a big fan of the genocide that goes on.
      Including currently. And what you’re most likely unaware of, the past couple yrs.
      Not to worry, plenty more will be happening.
      Everywhere. Well calculated & planned.
      Hope you know Jesus soon.
      No One Else is going to save you, or anyone else from themselves.
      *Jesus is everyone’s Only Hope.* ✝
      Don’t keep ignoring Him.

    • @sonneversets3530
      @sonneversets3530 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@SailorCheryl Hey suit yourself dear.
      God allows.
      Heads up butts is the new norm.
      Best to you w/yours.🐑
      Keep Jesus in mind when it’s all hitting the fan here.♥✝
      He still loves you.
      And will save your sorry butt from yourself, when you cry out to Him to.
      *Remember that.* Before you fall for the ‘mark’ coming down the rd.
      If you fell for the jabs, well.... _Try_ *not* to fall for that too. :)

  • @rong2912
    @rong2912 7 лет назад +230

    We are all heading towards certain death...

    • @djrobbie7717
      @djrobbie7717 5 лет назад +2

      I'm sad for all brother :(

    • @Itstwofourteen
      @Itstwofourteen 4 года назад +4

      Yup, we all got one life.
      Act accordingly 🍻

    • @no_i_dont_want_no_slugs
      @no_i_dont_want_no_slugs 4 года назад +2

      /snaps fingers repeatedly/

    • @CaioAraujoRibeiro
      @CaioAraujoRibeiro 3 года назад

      "...And yet here we are for the moment alive. Each of us knowing we are going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't"

    • @nowhereman6019
      @nowhereman6019 2 года назад +4

      Let's head to the mountains on the way there.

  • @mrhombreman
    @mrhombreman 6 лет назад +113

    Nihilist penguin
    Defies the shackles of life
    With senseless ease

    • @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494
      @dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 Год назад +5

      was the choice to leave the last line of the haiku a syllable short deliberate?
      If so, congratulations. You have shown your own defiance.
      If not, this is a disrespectful treatment of a great literary tradition. Senseless indeed.
      Either way, it made me think 🙂

    • @mrhombreman
      @mrhombreman Год назад +3

      @@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494 haha just me being sloppy

    • @sneezejs
      @sneezejs 10 месяцев назад

      @@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494😂

  • @susanmcdonald-timms3202
    @susanmcdonald-timms3202 2 месяца назад +7

    I cry every time. I cry out of the love the life force itself. Perhaps he has indeed made a mistake. But perhaps-it crosses my mind-he is doing what creatures and even plants have done for billions of years: made a change. The kind of change that brings about evolution-or annihilation. In that process, SOMEbody has to -TAKE A CHANCE. Risk something. Many, many die. And then -one does something that turns out to be the beginning of a better way for all. In the human world, we have such people. If they succeed, we call them heroes: if they fail, we think they are mad

  • @Osmann45
    @Osmann45 Год назад +105

    Even heading to his death his waddles are still absolutely adorable

    • @adambazso9207
      @adambazso9207 9 месяцев назад +4

      Very true. 😃🙂😊

    • @florianadolf2256
      @florianadolf2256 2 месяца назад +1

      And it kind of really helps taking the edge off an otherwise highly dramatic scene😏

  • @colinharter4094
    @colinharter4094 3 года назад +141

    Attenborough: "But why? Scientists are still unable to explain this aberrant and counterintuitive behavior."
    Herzog: " "But why?" [Silence]

    • @ericocccams5865
      @ericocccams5865 2 года назад +10

      herzog lets the penguin go attenborough takes the penguin and puts it in a zoo with other penguins to rehabilitate it

    • @Atlink
      @Atlink 2 года назад +14

      Silence is powerful when used properly.

    • @sunsetvista877
      @sunsetvista877 Год назад +3

      Penguin: "Why ask"?

    • @Badficwriter
      @Badficwriter 10 месяцев назад +5

      @@Atlink Herzog once said it frustrated him when filmmakers didn't let the silence speak.

  • @kerryscott3287
    @kerryscott3287 Год назад +29

    He's single, his mate likely died, he lost his egg, He's now an explorer, maybe travel is on his bucket list. Is it deranged to not grind out an existence

  • @nopenahman7380
    @nopenahman7380 Год назад +20

    Beyond the Mountains of Madness.... There are penguins.

  • @0ld_Scratch
    @0ld_Scratch 2 месяца назад +5

    Captured by the Faustian Spirit, the Penguin saw the mountains, nodded and said: "Because it is there!" and then off he went... conquering his fears!
    "Einmal vor Unerbittlichem stehen..."

  • @grispymohtajeb3471
    @grispymohtajeb3471 Год назад +13

    I cried! I really cried with this shit! When Werner Herzog said "But Why?" I couldn't hold it!

  • @1Live2Love3Thrive
    @1Live2Love3Thrive 2 года назад +20

    Werner Herzog is the dark humorous version of David Attenborough.

  • @kaboulscabal4816
    @kaboulscabal4816 5 лет назад +75

    But WHY?
    Nihilist Penguin ... you're the most "Werner Herzog" thing on RUclips there is.
    Just sayin' ...

  • @DonnieDarko1
    @DonnieDarko1 7 лет назад +283

    PGTOW
    Penguins Going Their Own Way.

    • @jerrybrown6460
      @jerrybrown6460 4 года назад +3

      This King has also strayed far from home

  • @emperorarasaka
    @emperorarasaka 10 месяцев назад +20

    1:35 After one last look at the cameraman as if to say goodbye, the penguin marches ahead towards the mountains that will lead him to heaven.

  • @dinolover
    @dinolover 9 месяцев назад +5

    Sometimes i think animals have frighteningly accurate moments of clarity, like for a split second they actually wonder and dream rather than eating and surviving on a daily basis. I wonder how many animals committed self suicide in the search for something more.

  • @thofabyq
    @thofabyq 7 лет назад +686

    This is evolution. some day a penguin will succeed

    • @dryued6874
      @dryued6874 7 лет назад +36

      We rise.

    • @LegoWorld1231
      @LegoWorld1231 7 лет назад +84

      that penguin was like fuck routine and decided to explore the world until it dies because the world is beautiful

    • @Bobby.Kristensen
      @Bobby.Kristensen 7 лет назад +22

      If that effort makes that penguin have more offspring than those who do not do this then yes - this is evolution. If not, then this behavior will likely die out. But it could also be a kind of behavior that won't be corrected, because it's such a deep rooted flaw in their DNA that all penguins have a certain likelihood of doing this.

    • @zanthor5422
      @zanthor5422 7 лет назад +4

      There's also the possibility that something external is affecting them, though I doubt it.

    • @daronstube
      @daronstube 7 лет назад +15

      probably Ancient Aliens

  • @0ld_Scratch
    @0ld_Scratch 7 лет назад +182

    Lovecraft: mountain of madness

    • @ano_nym
      @ano_nym 4 месяца назад +3

      Had to scroll too far for this. He heard the recognizable, yet eerie calling: "Tekeli-li, tekeli-li..."

    • @paulheinrichdietrich9518
      @paulheinrichdietrich9518 3 месяца назад +1

      I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antartic - with it's vast fossil hunt and it's wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice-cap - and I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain. Doubt of the real facts as I must reveal them is inevitable (...)
      In the end I must rely on the judgement and standing of the few scientific leaders who have, on the one hand, sufficient independence of thought to weigh my data on its own hideously convincing merits or in the light of certain primordial and highly baffling myth cycles; and on the other hand, sufficient influence to deter the exploring world in general from any rash and overambitious programme in the region of those mountains of madness.

    • @florianadolf2256
      @florianadolf2256 2 месяца назад

      Penguin: "Hold my beer."

  • @Eddddddddddyz
    @Eddddddddddyz 3 года назад +194

    He’s not a nihilist. He’s an artist.

    • @mitenka222
      @mitenka222 Год назад

      Ну тут уж как пойдёт! Может исследователь территории.

    • @IsaiahINRI
      @IsaiahINRI 10 месяцев назад +5

      He's an existentialist penguin

    • @ShawnLevasseur
      @ShawnLevasseur 5 месяцев назад +1

      Are we still talking about the penguin or Werner himself?

    • @SWProductions100
      @SWProductions100 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@ShawnLevasseur
      I not too familiar with nihilism or Herzog - but from what I understand, nihilism is more a focus on being good despite the lack of meaning.
      And Herzog seems he could have both artistry and this hopeful nihilism.
      I don't know about the penguin.

    • @kanjuro8926
      @kanjuro8926 2 месяца назад

      There's a quote I like from "Louise" (it's an opera) : "workers want to be bourgeois, bourgeois want to be nobles, nobles want to be kings, kings want to be artists, artists want to be gods"

  • @ianroberts2470
    @ianroberts2470 Год назад +43

    The s-l-o-w fade to black at the end of the clip is a sign of ultimate respect to the little guy from a great filmmaker.

  • @thelostronin
    @thelostronin Год назад +42

    That penguin was the Werner Herzog of his colony - utterly unique and determined to tell his own story

  • @RogueScythe
    @RogueScythe 7 лет назад +319

    Not nihilistic, it just needed something more out of life. A new challenge, a new world. It needed to get away from the tedium. Deviation is the precursor to evolution and growth.
    There is a profound sadness about knowing the direction and fate of lesser creatures as they go about their lives, and the hardships inherent in the path that this one has embarked upon. We know how it will end, but we hope that it will not regret its life that was spent simply doing what it wanted to do.

    • @williamtrottier6865
      @williamtrottier6865 4 года назад +4

      😮

    • @sonnyboyduffy8399
      @sonnyboyduffy8399 4 года назад +5

      Yeah it was gonna audition for the part of skipper

    • @Aighthandle
      @Aighthandle 4 года назад +16

      Imagine calling penguins lesser in 2020. Have you seen an American politician

    • @lonestarlibrarian1853
      @lonestarlibrarian1853 2 года назад

      @@Aighthandle Let’s be honest, while it can be a funny joke to call humans stupid, even people with actual mental disabilities perform at or above the level of the smartest animals.

    • @Aighthandle
      @Aighthandle 2 года назад

      @@lonestarlibrarian1853 are you a child or a libertarian? Very difficult to tell.

  • @horricule451
    @horricule451 7 лет назад +342

    I want to be like Werner Herzog when I grow older

    • @sebsy15
      @sebsy15 4 года назад +14

      I hope to see you hold yourself to that.

    • @cow_tools_
      @cow_tools_ 4 года назад +4

      Funniest comment.

    • @danijelcerkic273
      @danijelcerkic273 4 года назад +3

      Good luck. Whish you very best.

    • @cralo2569
      @cralo2569 3 года назад +1

      so you want to be a loser when you grow up

    • @diegobadiaamedee4717
      @diegobadiaamedee4717 3 года назад +2

      I want to be like the penguin

  • @shadowfox6438
    @shadowfox6438 7 лет назад +28

    "I'm tired of your shit, Larry"

  • @alicergicwonderland
    @alicergicwonderland 3 месяца назад +8

    He knew too much

  • @naufaladen2401
    @naufaladen2401 2 месяца назад +7

    Nihilist pinguin... What a great band name

  • @MrCery01
    @MrCery01 7 лет назад +360

    exurb1a, anyone?

    • @sarge019l4
      @sarge019l4 7 лет назад +28

      Why is this the mystery link!?! It makes no sense. Kind of like what this penguin is doi--- OH MY GOD THAT'S THE CONNECTION!

    • @VeryEfficientBlender
      @VeryEfficientBlender 7 лет назад +17

      so the connection is that were all headed to certain doom?
      right?

    • @icevlad148
      @icevlad148 7 лет назад +10

      without really knowing why

    • @TipsyRiver
      @TipsyRiver 7 лет назад +26

      The connection is to all 3 themes: complexity, entropy and meaning.
      In the case of the runaway penguin we see entropy(doing something different from the norm) and meaning(he's heading towards certain death and probably doesn't know it).
      In the case of the rest of the penguins, we see the complexity of life. They have a place to live and a seperate place to feed, they have a routine and somehow it all works out for them, despite the disorder of the world and the odds against them.
      Basically, the universe is insane and we all either run at full speed towards death or try to drag things out. Either way, death is inevitable and life has no meaning.

    • @verlisify7273
      @verlisify7273 7 лет назад +6

      guys downlaod pokemon sun and moon by typing """=H-3eyhUzbbM""" on RUclips

  • @MrArtisticjay
    @MrArtisticjay 7 лет назад +57

    when complexity ends and entropy's on full throttle

    • @JonDoeIsWaleed
      @JonDoeIsWaleed 7 лет назад

      /r/videos

    • @florianadolf2256
      @florianadolf2256 2 месяца назад

      Yet, the ice that surrounds that little fellow does have a lower degree of entropy in its frozen solid state, than liquid water, that might be found in the more agreeable and less hostile zones of our planet. Nevertheless, the penguin fully accepts this irony and keeps waddling along. He remains fully committed to the task at hand.

  • @AJ213Probably
    @AJ213Probably 7 лет назад +83

    exurb1a ;)

    • @rileybenedict1804
      @rileybenedict1804 7 лет назад +7

      man this is really sad. god dammit exurb1a

    • @MrMartin1538
      @MrMartin1538 7 лет назад

      Exurb1a,Science and Nihilism.
      Best combo ever :,)

    • @cow_tools_
      @cow_tools_ 7 лет назад

      Is this from a video of his? Which one?

    • @rileybenedict1804
      @rileybenedict1804 7 лет назад +1

      Miles Anderson latest vid. myatery link at the end of the vid

    • @sah71sah
      @sah71sah 6 лет назад

      What's the name of vid mate?

  • @Fistbeardthepirate
    @Fistbeardthepirate 3 месяца назад +7

    1:23 the penguin is going to meet God

  • @thetalk3155
    @thetalk3155 Год назад +4

    Here from Elon

  • @helveticaneptune537
    @helveticaneptune537 6 лет назад +44

    Penguin suffering from existential angst

  • @raltommo
    @raltommo 7 лет назад +171

    Je suis Penguin.

    • @dee7793
      @dee7793 6 лет назад

      hahahahahhahaxD

    • @RRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
      @RRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH 4 года назад +2

      JE SUIS LE SOLEIL

    • @sirjazz5776
      @sirjazz5776 3 года назад

      Alors oui, c'est tragique et terrifiant, bouleversant même de voir se manchot se diriger vers une mort assurée ; parfaitement inébranlable . . .
      Mais moi, bah... con comme je suis...
      J'suis désolé...
      Tout c'que je vois c'est le pingouin qui pars en solo dans la cambrousse pour aller rendre une quête à un PNJ derrière la p***in de montagne ! x'D

    • @krimskrams
      @krimskrams 3 года назад

      lol

    • @han3wmanwukong125
      @han3wmanwukong125 3 года назад

      LOL!

  • @DetectiveAndrey
    @DetectiveAndrey 7 лет назад +74

    Penguin! ;( We will not forget you! R.I.P.

    • @Toto-95
      @Toto-95 5 лет назад +6

      bet you forgot

    • @honoraryanglo2929
      @honoraryanglo2929 5 лет назад +5

      Legend says he lives in those mountains now

    • @dlewis9760
      @dlewis9760 6 месяцев назад

      ​ @Toto-95 I've been back 3 or 4 times to watch this over the years. I haven't.

  • @JohannRosario1
    @JohannRosario1 11 месяцев назад +5

    Aren’t we all that penguin, staring into that void of oblivion?

  • @curtisprice6046
    @curtisprice6046 2 месяца назад +7

    His reaction is the reaction of a rebellion against the life of the crowd.

  • @shadowalk3
    @shadowalk3 7 лет назад +49

    WHAT THE HELL KIND OF VIDEOS EXURB1A WATCHES???

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney 4 месяца назад

      Did he recommend this one? I'm not surprised.

  • @elementofnaivity
    @elementofnaivity 5 лет назад +51

    He's surfing on his belly towards certain death

  • @itsrando3923
    @itsrando3923 3 года назад +275

    “One of these disoriented or deranged penguins”
    I like to think that the little penguin was not confused nor crazy, he was just ahead of the curve. He acknowledged that he and his other penguin friends would spend their lives killing other living things for food, and trying not to be killed themselves. All while condemning themselves to years of servitude to an egg which would continue the everlasting cycle. In that moment when he looked both ways, he decided he wanted no part in it all. He went about his own path and searched for something he himself didnt know even existed. Maybe he was searching for freedom, maybe not. Regardless, he waddled off into the frozen lands, and disobeyed his instinctual coding to stay with his group, hunt, and reproduce; all while knowing inevitable death stood before him with open arms. In my eyes, this is the bravest little creature ive witnessed. I pray in time, all living things will be free of this cruel world.

    • @nowhereman6019
      @nowhereman6019 2 года назад +33

      Der Überpinguin.

    • @nicmainville9954
      @nicmainville9954 2 года назад +7

      I read this Werner’s voice lol

    • @itsrando3923
      @itsrando3923 2 года назад +1

      @@nicmainville9954 I’ll take that as a compliment.

    • @yibithehispanic
      @yibithehispanic 2 года назад

      You nihilistic hypocrites need to shut the hell up

    • @RustinChole
      @RustinChole Год назад +3

      That prayer will get answered. In time.

  • @zomalfa4363
    @zomalfa4363 4 месяца назад +8

    Its interesting that the penguin stopped and looked back.

  • @brightonfunds
    @brightonfunds Год назад +23

    This is either really sad or really the story of a hero who has a unique calling.

    • @MichaelConroy-o4s
      @MichaelConroy-o4s 2 месяца назад

      @@brightonfunds If that penguin had orange hair and played “air accordion”,you can bet half the country would be rooting for it to die.We live in a fallen world,sadly.😔

  • @malxredleader
    @malxredleader 3 года назад +6

    How many of us are here because of Conan?

  • @saidtoshimaru1832
    @saidtoshimaru1832 3 года назад +37

    The Penguin march: Films the whole colony working together to countinue life.
    Herzog: Films the only penguin that goes by itself to die alone.

  • @Jackjohnjay
    @Jackjohnjay 10 месяцев назад +52

    He’s a Carthusian. This penguin was simply called by God up into the mountains like great mystics and monks long ago. The music was perfect. Pray for us brother

    • @garcalej
      @garcalej 8 месяцев назад +2

      No god in those mountains except Cthulu, the Devourer.

  • @tobiasfoppe725
    @tobiasfoppe725 6 месяцев назад +4

    It is beautiful to see that this incredibly touching and equally hilarious and haunting little excerpt of Herzog s movie seems to attract interesting and delightful people. So far I have not encountered a single comment with a hostile or defaming content here. Moreso I read many wonderful comments full of wit and compassion. That again touches me deeply, I must say.

  • @malcolmliang
    @malcolmliang Год назад +6

    Elon Musk recommended watch of the day.

  • @sunsetnoiser
    @sunsetnoiser 7 лет назад +47

    this is pure brilliance

  • @hanshintermann1551
    @hanshintermann1551 4 года назад +51

    This is lowkey heartbreaking.

  • @jarjarissnoke532
    @jarjarissnoke532 6 лет назад +72

    "can a penguin go insane" is a beautiful question that hardly needs an answer ; only vulgar questions need to be answered.

  • @plutovenus4101
    @plutovenus4101 Год назад +7

    He isn't a nihilist. He doesn't follow the crowd.

  • @maeve_a
    @maeve_a 3 года назад +36

    You know, if one penguin, just one penguin does it, they may think he's really sick and he won't make it. And if two penguins, two penguins do it, in harmony, they may think they're both crazy and they won't make it either. And if three penguins do it, three, can you imagine, three penguins walking off, singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and heading for the mountain. They may think it's an Organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty penguins a day, I said fifty penguins a day walking off singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking towards the mountain... friends they may think it's a movement.

    • @lesleyedgley8371
      @lesleyedgley8371 Год назад

      👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😁😁

    • @liltick102
      @liltick102 Год назад +1

      Sheeesh

    • @liltick102
      @liltick102 Год назад

      Sounds like a Hunter S Thompson quote

    • @maeve_a
      @maeve_a Год назад +3

      @@liltick102 does a bit. But it's right out of Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie. 😏

    • @dlewis9760
      @dlewis9760 6 месяцев назад +2

      I occasionally pass by the road to Arlo's house. You can see it from the main drag, Rt 8. When I do, I think of that song. Does the Penguin sit on the Group W bench?

  • @songworks17
    @songworks17 7 лет назад +18

    Or maybe s/he just has wanderlust. To see what's beyond the horizon. The penguin looks pretty fat. Probably could survive for a while before circling back.

  • @RitosM
    @RitosM Год назад +10

    He just wants to explore what is within the vast mountains. He is truly enlightened, and broke out of the system. He is not nihilist, but rather the opposite, finding adventure in the mundane life of the average penguin.

  • @JordanVanRyn
    @JordanVanRyn Год назад +9

    This isn't "March of the Penguins", this is "March of the Existential Penguin".

    • @florianadolf2256
      @florianadolf2256 2 месяца назад

      Goes by the name of "Kwai Chang Penguin"

  • @averytijerina3425
    @averytijerina3425 Год назад +9

    Love it, the music makes it seem like the penguin is searching for something greater.

  • @sandykemp7562
    @sandykemp7562 4 года назад +19

    I love thought provoking material like this.
    Perhaps this is an insight into evolutionary processes that perhaps millions of years ago lead to primal forms of humanity leaving their cradles of life and spreading across the globe, eventually leading to us becoming the dominant species.
    Maybe one day one of these “insane” penguins will make it to wherever they’re being drawn and survive, leading to a new era of penguin development and behaviour.
    Maybe.

    • @thewalkingjoke3843
      @thewalkingjoke3843 10 месяцев назад +1

      No, because a lone penguin won’t be able to reproduce

  • @blimpslap2
    @blimpslap2 7 лет назад +29

    I feel ya penguin

  • @GnumpStonetoe
    @GnumpStonetoe 7 лет назад +53

    Couldnt a helicopter follow the penguin and drop some food every 4 hours to give it a chance to do what it wanted :(

    • @ilonasapel3072
      @ilonasapel3072 6 лет назад +25

      that's not how it works

    • @jac1207
      @jac1207 6 лет назад +39

      who doesn't want a helicopter dropping food packets for us every 4 hours?

    • @fakecubed
      @fakecubed 4 года назад +20

      The day penguins evolve to form strong enough emotional bonds with humans to get humans to burn tons of helicopter fuel to drop food packets on every lost penguin, is the day humans are in a lot of trouble.

    • @zemownkee
      @zemownkee 4 года назад +4

      BUT WHY?

    • @GnumpStonetoe
      @GnumpStonetoe 4 года назад +26

      @@zemownkee As we see a lone helicopter gone insane follow a penguin, equally insane, off to the mountains we ask ourselves "BUT WHY?", and who knows why a helicopter does the things it does

  • @MikeGeorgeC0619
    @MikeGeorgeC0619 10 месяцев назад +6

    Thus Spoke Nihilist Penguin

  • @ZenLoops
    @ZenLoops 4 месяца назад +3

    He will have to find himself in the desert and come back like Jesus. Hopefully the colony doesn’t crucify him for telling them to stop being animals😂

  • @mansocarlo
    @mansocarlo 3 года назад +6

    I'm here because of Conan